Perception And Perception Research Paper

Every behavior, thought, and feeling begins with biology and actions of the brain. People also view the world through their senses. Sensation and perception are tied in through the brain, central nervous system, and the spinal cord. The body is controlled by information passing through the nervous system. Billions of cells transmit information to different parts of the body. Two people who witness an event can perceive a situation in a different way due to the nervous system and how information is downloaded by the brain. I will demonstrate in this paper how the central nervous system, the brain, and the spinal cord all work together to show how two people can perceive information in a different way.

Two people can witness an accident and have different accounts on what happened. The scenario is there’s been a meeting, and two co-workers arrive late. The first person arrives and apologizes for being late then says there was a minor fender bender at the intersection and there was a wait to get around it. The second co-worker arrives then says sorry for being late, but there was a terrible accident at the intersection where there were a lot of damage and she would be surprised if no one was killed. Two people witnessed this accident, but both have a different perception of what happened. One reason for the different perception is that behaviors are influenced by the brain. The thalamus is the sensory router which receives information from all the cells then routes the information to other areas that deal with sense, tasting, and touching (Myers, 2014, p. 50). The reticular formation inside of the brainstem is a system of neuron extending from the spinal cord to the thalamus which decodes incoming stimuli (Myers, 2014, p. 52). When t...

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...workers two autonomic and sympathetic nervous system (Myers, 2014, p. 44). From the central nervous system the message was sent to the spinal cord, thalamus, and the temporal lobe which is responsible for sound located in the cerebral cortex of the brain (Myers, 2014, p. 57). The brain then process the information which made co worker two view the accident different from co worker one.

In conclusion, I have learned how the environment and one’s sensory plays a role in how an event is perceived. Neurons fire and send the information to the central nervous system. The peripheral nervous system is two components automatic and somatic which directly sends information from the spinal cord to the brain. The brain sends information to the body and its organs. When there is a disruption in how information is transported no two people will view an event in the same way.